Sweet Renée Is Apple-Cheeked Wedge Between Two Saddle Bums

Appaloosa
114 Minutes
WRITTEN BY Robert Knott and Ed Harris
DIRECTED BY Ed Harris
STARRING Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall

In most movie westerns, an appaloosa is a horse. But the title of his new revisionist oater, Ed Harris’ first outing in the director’s Read More

White Noise? Streisand’s Scarier!

The old year hasn’t really ended. The new year is still making up its mind. It’s a time for the crumbs-the morsels left over from the banquet that fall on the floor for the dogs.

The movies are off to a roaring thud. Michael Keaton is an actor with charm and skill, but when it Read More

Woo Is Me! The Courtship Question

A few weeks ago, I

got a lesson in courtship from my father. It started when I told him that I’d

been dating a man who said he liked my apartment, with its Moroccan

painted-wood pieces and flea-market finds.

“That’s terrific,” my father said. “That means he’s interested .”

“Because he said he Read More

Gary Busey’s a Creep … Shannen Doherty, Aaron Spelling Have a Convenient Reunion … Lolita ‘s Not Bad…

Wednesday, July 29

Is the war over?…

Legendary-ish TV impresario Aaron Spelling and Shannen Doherty were reunited at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on July 25, seated next to each other during the WB Television Network’s presentation of the Spelling-produced Charmed , a WB show scheduled for the fall about Read More

A Delicate Affair With Hong Kong

For the something different crowd, Chinese Box is a brooding and elusive love story, as literal as a smear of dark purple lipstick on the starched collar of a white linen shirt and as puzzling as the exquisitely constructed, meticulous, delicate and fragile layers of a Chinese box that hides the mysteries of the human Read More